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J. LANDFEAR LUCAS (Abolition of Transporta-
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fleeted by the Act 16 and 17 Viet. c. 99. See the article ' Transportation ' in ' Haydn's Dictionary of Dates,' 24th ed., 1906.
H. S. B. (Nirvana).' The Oxford English Dictionary ' gives this definition : " In Buddhist theology, the extinction of individual existence and absorption into the supreme spirit, or the extinction of all desires and passions and attain- ment of perfect beatitude."
H. A. J. (" Every schoolboy knows "). The ihrase was familiar before either Macaulay or 3cott used it. ' Cassell's Book of Quotations,' 1912, cites examples from Swift's ' Country Life ' and from Burton's ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' 1621.
CORRIGENDUM. In line 9 of ' Noviomagus,' ante, p. 24, for " from 1884 to 1879 " read from, 1884 to 1897.
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